Word: honda
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...company's latest report, released last week, confirmed that position. Last month the automaker announced it would join with environmental groups (and Toyota and Honda) in a call for consumer tax credits to help subsidize sales of high-mileage hybrid-fuel vehicles, which are still costly to produce. In any case, Ford will begin selling a hybrid-fuel version of its small SUV, the Escape, in 2003. Not to be outdone, General Motors says it will have its fleet of zero-emissions buses on the roads soon. "Two years ago, people couldn't wait to distance themselves from what...
...launch the Partnership for Climate Action, pledging to reduce their greenhouse emissions to levels meeting or exceeding Kyoto's requirements. Ford, Daimler-Benz and Texaco have not yet joined, but last year they did quit the misleadingly named Global Climate Coalition, an industry group opposed to emissions controls. Honda and Toyota have introduced hybrid cars with emissions 40% lower than standard models of the same size...
...Brieng, a dusty Dak Lak village. In the hope of finding a better future, he followed government orders to abandon communal living 10 years ago and began growing coffee. Within a few years he was able to buy a television and Vietnam's ultimate status symbol?a Honda motorbike. But these days his extended family of 14 is struggling. Still, he doesn't blame the Kinh settlers to whom he sells his crop and even credits them with bringing development to the region. "Without the Kinh," he says, "we could do nothing...
...true that he hasn't left in a year. "I'm too skinny to leave," he explains. "Everyone will know I'm doing yaba.") Big has a job as a pump jockey at a Star gas station. And he has a girlfriend, and he has his motorcycle, a Honda GSR 125. This weekend, like most weekends, he'll be racing his bike with the other guys from the neighborhood, down at Bangkok's superslum Klong Toey. That's why tonight, a few days before the race, he is working on his bike, removing a few links of the engine chain...
...keng rot. They look forward all week to racing their bikes against other gangs from other neighborhoods. And while they profess to have nothing but disgust for the slum's hard-core addicts, by 4 a.m. that night on a mattress laid on the floor next to his beloved Honda, Big and his friends are smoking yaba, and there suddenly seems very little difference between his crowd and Jacky's. "Smoking once in a while, on weekends, that really won't do any harm," Big explains, exhaling a plume of white smoke. "It's just like having a drink...